Narrative Viewpoint & Style
General English · C1 · ~99 min · 8 parts
Explore how tense choice, narrative distance and fronted adverbials change what a reader notices first.
By the end of this lesson, you can:
- ✓Use the historical present to make selected past events feel immediate
- ✓Shift tense deliberately without losing chronological clarity
- ✓Create narrative distance through reporting and stance choices
- ✓Use fronted adverbials to foreground time, contrast and setting
- ✓Retell the same event from contrasting perspectives and explain the stylistic effect
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